Quotes About Responsibility

Trust in God was a great excuse for sloth and lack of planning.

The CEO of Monsanto had been disemboweled alive.

Once they are gone, they are gone forever. ---- Sheila Colla, referring to our endangered native bees, as noted on the blog Liber Ero (from the book The Humane Gardener)

Our task is to encourage our husbands to obey God's Word and will for their lives.

Whether we make our own money or rely on someone else, many of us would rater pretend our financial matters don't exist. Or we hope they'll just take care of themselves somehow. My ex-husband was like that. He always said, "I bank by prayer. I go to the ATM and pray that money will come out.

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

There is much more to playing the clavier than playing written music. Do you realize with accompanying there is often nothing written out but the bass line--the left hand? There might be a few notations as to a suggested harmony, but it is up to me to fill in the music, at the proper volume, style, and harmony for the soloist--often instantly. I've heard it said that Bach questioned wether the soloist or the accompanist deserves the greatest glory.

But his letters . . . I took them with me, let the "ounces" cry aloud. I tried to leave, and could not. They would not be left; it was not my fault. I will not be scolded.

Allowing others to decide for us does not guarantee a better decision but almost always guarantees a fuller regret, and regret is a poison I wish on no one.

The fate of many men depended on the fate of this one. And this one I could help

Even in the the dark times, He is there. And in the good times we need to be good stewards of the blessing.~ pg 219

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

Art is a visual language, and Christians have a responsibility to learn that language.

Lived out consistently, postmodernism leads to complicity with evil and injustice.

Our actions are not simply links in a closed chain of causally connected physical events. We have the capacity to be first causes, starting a new chain of cause and effect.

For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.

Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.

The truth is, it's impossible for any parent to know what his or her child will be like as an adult. But we can tell you that the sensory smart child of sensory smart parents is a person who is empowered to take responsibility for himself, for his body, and for his behavior. That's an outstanding quality any parent would be proud to see in a child.

I want that child around for the rest of its life to remind Tom what a fool he is.

It's okay to be angry. Your mother should not have allowed this to happen....

Everyone tells me that I should forgive her. But how can I forgive someone who has never asked to be forgiven; somebody who's never even acknowledged any wrongdoing, someone who continues to do the same thing?

To the little girl it wasn't funny. She felt wistful and a bit sad that it had taken so long to be free of being responsible for the happiness of others, free of guilt, and free not to forgive—and free to choose not to even see her mother.

Nevertheless, when we fail to investigate and/or believe the victim, we become complicit with the abuse.